🛡️ CVE-2022-27920 — fedora

🟡 CVSS 6.1 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-79 NVD

6.1

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

libkiwix 10.0.0 and 10.0.1 allows XSS in the built-in webserver functionality via the search suggestions URL parameter. This is fixed in 10.1.0.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-27920 is classified as CWE-79: Cross-site Scripting (XSS). User-supplied data is written into a page without escaping, so attacker script runs in the browser of anyone who views it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-27920 is recorded against 2 packages.

fedora
libkiwix

Timeline and source

Published on 25 March 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
github.com
lists.fedoraproject.org
github.com
github.com
lists.fedoraproject.org

CVE-2022-27920 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Debian Ubuntu

Details

Severity MEDIUM

CVSS Score 6.1

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE CWE-79

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source NVD

Published 2022-03-25

Updated 2026-08-11

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/issues/728

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
fedora	—	—
libkiwix	—	—

References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/issues/728

Issue Tracking, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/pull/721

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KD4KX5N2PGMIOQR2IZWEUTZCCTPWU3EJ/

Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/issues/728

Issue Tracking, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/kiwix/libkiwix/pull/721

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KD4KX5N2PGMIOQR2IZWEUTZCCTPWU3EJ/

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